Wow I've finally posted my first story! I didn't think that it could be done.

Chapter 1

Hey everyone! My name is Katherine Jane Brown but everyone calls me Kathy. My best friend Ash calls me Kat and is the only one who is allowed to call me that. A few days ago I turned ten years old. It was a big deal to me because it meant that I was old enough to start my journey. I would be the only one in my family so far that was going to start a journey. My dad, Jaden, doesn't have any pokemon. My mom, Kelsey, had pokemon but when she died my dad released them since he couldn't bare to see them anymore. He remarried a lady named Holly. Holly already had a son named Marcus (my older brother, 14), and three daughters, Sissy (my older sister, 12), and Miley and Leah (my little sisters who happens to be twins, 6). I already had a little brother named Todd (he's older than Miley and Leah by a year). Holly doesn't like pokemon very much so Marcus and Sissy doesn't care for them all that much either. Well on with my story.

I got up early this morning since today is the day I can get my starter pokemon and leave on my journey. The only bad thing about it was that me and Ash had decided to go seperate ways because I wanted to go one way while he wanted to go another. I dressed in a red t-shirt, jeans, black running shoes, and my gray bandanna. By the way I have straight blond hair and dark green eyes. I grabbed my gray back pack that I packed last night and went downstairs where I poured me a bowel of cereal. A few minutes later everyone else came in to eat breakfast. We all ate in silence and when it was time we all went to Professor Oak's. They waited outside with everyone else while I got my starter pokemon. Inside I saw Gary (uugghh) and some other kid who I didn't know but no Ash.

'Ash where are you?' I thought to myself while I glanced around.

"He isn't here yet. Even if he did make it he wouldn't get a pokemon. There are three starter ones remember and if you look around you'll see that there are already three of us here. Ashy boy is just going to have to suck it up and wait even longer." Gary said.

I talk to Gary every now and then but I don't like him all that much because of the way that he talks about Ash.

"He'll get his pokemon." I said quietly.

"Keep thinking that Katherine."

"Shut up Gary." I mumbled. He knows that I hate being called by my name.

Ash didn't turn up until after we got our pokemon. When he did show up he was still wearing his sleeping clothes.

"I'm too late. . . . . " he said.

"To bad for you Ashy boy." Gary said.

"What pokemon did you get then Gary?" Ash asked.

"Why should I tell you?" Gary asked as he drove off laughing with a bunch of cheerleaders.

"What a jerk!" I said.

"So which one did you pick Kat?"

"I'll show you when you go and get yours. Hurry up, I'll be waiting for you to come out." I said smiling.

"I don't see why you don't go with him Kathy." Sissy said.

"Because I want to head straight to Pewter City and skip Viridian City by taking the forest by route 17 and then cut through Viridian Forest. He wants to go through Viridain city." I said.

"Wow, you have this all planned out don't you." Marcus said.

"I wish that you would stay here with us but if this is what you want then go for it." Holly said.

"I won't disappoint you guys, I promise." I said with a grin on my face.

When Ash came back he had a yellow pokemon walking beside him. I took out my black pokedex that Professor Oak gave me to find out what pokemon it was. It was a Pikachu.

"Wow Ash! You got a really cool pokemon! Why isn't it in it's pokeball?"

"Oh yeah. Pikachu return." Ash said. He tried to return it to it's pokeball but it wouldn't.

"Oh look they're playing catch." his mom said and I sweat dropped.

"Hey Kat where's your pokemon?"

"Come on out Charmander!" I said releasing Charmander from it's pokeball.

"Ooohhhh!" my little brother and sisters cooed.

"Hey he's pretty cool Kathy." Marcus said.

"So you got a Charmander huh." he said quietly.

"You better get going you two." my dad said.

"He's right. I hope I'll get to see you really soon Ash. Return Charmander." I said.

"Kathy as soon as you get to a pokemon center I want you to give us a call. If there's no center, find a phone. And please be careful." my dad said.

"Okay. Bye everyone!"

And then I left.

I was walking though the forest and I hadn't seen a single pokemon since I left Pallet Town. This was going to be a lot harder than I thought. The sudden movement of a bush caught my eye and I tense up and felt scared. But then I realized that I had Charmander with me and I had nothing to be afraid of so I relax. Out of the bush comes a round, pink pokemon. I take out my pokedex to see what pokemon it was.

"Jigglypuff, the lullaby pokemon. When it wavers its big, round eyes, it begins singing a lullaby that makes everyone drowsy." my pokedex said.

"A Jigglypuff, alright then. Come on out Charmander!"

"Char?" Charmander asked looking around.

"Charmander," I said getting down on my knees to talk to him, "see that Jigglypuff? You have to weaken it for us so that we can add it to our team okay."

"Char!" Charmander said, nodding his head.

"Alright! Okay then use Ember!"

It was a direct hit.

"Good now use scratch!"

The Jigglypuff dodged and tackled Charmander into the ground.

"No, Charmander are you okay?" I asked worried.

"Cha. . . . . " Chamander said getting up.

"Okay then use Ember one more time."

It hit and the Jigglypuff was knocked up so I threw a pokeball at it and waited until the red light on the pokeball went off.

"YES! We did it Charmander!" I cheered while spinning Charmander in my arms.

I returned Charmander to his pokeball and picked up Jigglypuff's and clipped them on my belt. I smiled and started Ashes To Ashes by Vegas Bomb, which is my favorite song, as I started walking again but as I did I had the feeling that I was being followed. I was already in the Viridian Forest by the time the sun had started to set so I decided that I would set up camp for the night. I brought out Charmander and Jigglypuff so that they could get to know each other better and so that Charmander could start a fire. I fed them some pokemon food before returning them to their pokeballs and went to sleep in my sleeping bag.

That's it for the first chapter but more is on the way! Please leave a review and tell me what you think. This is my first fic so when you review please go on easy on me. Everyone who reviewed will be thanked in the next chapter.